Profile For RocketmAAn

Checking the specs at garmin, I noticed a sub-note for the routing using your truck profile specs. It said not available in all areas. Great, which areas?? I wonder if for the areas it can't get good info from the state, the program over-restricts routing perhaps based only on something like the basic type of road. Might try setting up different profiles for states where you have biggest problem??

Personally, I don't know how much I'll have to spend to get the same functionality as I had in my cheap 3.5" MIO (since bought by either Magellan or Garmin). I could force a different route (like avoid going thru downtown Chicago) simply by adding a waypoint by touching the map on the bypass route. It would give me miles and time to every point in a list. If I had used it in a truck, I could have quickly added three truck stops, stopping points at the estimated end of my day so I could constantly evaluate which one I could make before HOS was up. The units I've tried so far, some will let me enter multiple waypoint destinations, but none let you see/get info on anything beyond just the next one. It even spoke street names. Couldn't update past 2007 maps and had no traffic info, so had to retire it. Still looking for something as useful.

Trivia: 100/150 air miles is not just an "as the crow flies" circle vs. your actual driving miles, it's based on aeronautical miles, which are about 15% longer than land miles. So 150 air-miles is 172.6 miles for you and me.

So how do I get to the static photo choices on trucking truth to pick a different one?

Be careful not to confuse Logging requirements, with CDL requirements, with HOS, with weigh station requirements. (and Med Card requirement) Also. FMCSA are usually for INTERSTATE commerce (which leads to my confusion as to why the 100/150 mile LOGGING vs. time records exception is a Federal Reg when it doesn't matter whether you cross the state line?). FMCSA (so for interstate) says commercial motor vehicle (with ecceptions) is 10K+. Med card needed for 10K+. Weigh station is State to State (many require stop at 10K+ GVWR/GCWR, around here the signs say over 8 tons). For INTRASTATE, rules can vary. Texas has some different HOS rules, Illinois requires non-CDL class C for 16K-26K.

The 2nd post example is interesting because it involves a mix of commercial/non-commercial vehicles. Basically, it looks like if you are going to do anything (including driving non-commercial vehicle) during a period that you drive something that requires a log, you need to log all the time and have all records for the time period you are required to have records for that vehicle. The trooper said show the non-commercial time as On Duty. Sounds like if for work you ride your bike or even walked M-TH, then drive 33K box truck on FRI, you need log records showing ON DUTY for M-F. Wish I'd known that when I jumped between a Van and a 26K straight truck with the last company I worked for. Lucky, I was never stopped.